Are There White People in the Bible?

Re-examining White Christianity through the lenses of race and privilege.

Tim Gee

Features

When Quakers Were the Karens

Remembering an era when White Friends silenced Black and Indigeous voices.

Elizabeth Cazden

Features

Before My Life Matters to You, Let It Matter to Me

Could we be doing more harm than good with our selective outrage?

Rodney Long

Features

We Can’t Breathe!

A Friends school’s quick response to 2020’s racial protests.

Mauricio Torres

Features

She Had a Dream

Alaskan Friend Mahala Dickerson leaves a legacy.

Charlotte Basham

Features

Reparations

The road from saving to giving.

Elizabeth Oppenheimer

Features

A Proposed Plan for Retrospective Justice

Acknowledging our past, committing to truth, and making amends.

Harold D. Weaver Jr.

Poetry

These Days

These days I mostly want to be quiet.Except when I don’t.What I’m saying is I want to choose.At the same…

Linda Chidsey

Poetry

Farm Market Encounter

I stumble,spill strawberries across asphalt. You kneel without a word,hands bearing sweetness into mine,sun radiant around your dark head. You…

Laura Grace Weldon

Poetry

The Small Notches

An entire week and I finally rubbedthe last of the price tag’s sticky residuefrom the coffee mug I bought off…

Steven Ray Smith

Forum

Forum, January 2021

Surveying the flat lands Joe McHugh’s recent article on senior spirituality (“East of Denver,” FJ Dec. 2020) was inspiring and…

Staff

Witness

Watering Our Quaker Roots

Arch Street Meeting awards a grant to St. James School, an independent Episcopal milld-school in Philadelphia.

Paul Laskow

QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, January 2021

Have you seen the one with two young adult Friends talking about how they use humorous Internet memes to raise…

Staff

Uncategorized

Our Top Five Articles for 2020

What's captured readers' attention this past year?

FJ Editorial Staff

News

Guilford College plans to cut majors and faculty due to financial crisis

Last updated December 7, 2020 Guilford College announced on November 6 that due to financial shortfalls it plans to cut…

FJ News Editor

Among Friends

Hunkering Down, Growing Down

Reader, this has not been a typical year. As our days grow shorter and our nights colder here in the…

Gabriel Ehri

Marcia V. Ormsby, MD on Nurturing Spiritual Gifts and Concerns

This writing speaks my heart, my devotion to the spiritual guide within! I couldn’t agree more…
Patrick Nugent on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this marvelous article. I also enjoyed re-reading today after many years the…
Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…